by Angela Guess
Jeff St. John of Green Tech Media reports, “The smart grid presents an interesting problem for the world of big data, and particularly the field of unstructured data. Where traditional data management requires its data to be formalized and regimented, unstructured data systems take their data as-is, so to speak, from the literally uncountable numbers of inputs by which information is digitized, and then make sense of it… Integrating them one-to-one is tricky enough. Sharing their data universally — whether to analyze it, or to actually manage and control the disparate systems connected to the unstructured data engine — is another level of integration altogether.”
St. John goes on, “That’s the kind of capability that AutoGrid Systems is promising. The Palo Alto, Calif.-based startup unstealthed on Monday, and announced it has raised $9 million Series B round from investors Foundation Capital, Voyager Capital and Stanford University. Since its 2011 founding, it has also won backing from the U.S. Department of Energy’s ARPA-E program, which awarded it a $2.87 million grant last year, as well as the California Energy Commission with a grant earlier this year. AutoGrid’s core technology is its Energy Data Platform, the cloud-based unstructured data analytics and management engine that takes in data from a multitude of sources and applies real-time predictive algorithms to the flood.”
photo credit: AutoGrid
